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One of the worst US states in which to have a data breach, especially a medical data breach, is probably California: in addition to federal HIPAA regulations, California has shown itself to be quite aggressive when dealing with medical entities that experience...

According to wreg.com , patients at the Boston Baskin Cancer Foundation recently learned they were potential victims of a data breach. This is one of those cases where one is left wondering if administrators thought things through: HIPAA encryption software...

There are brazen thieves and then there is this guy: video footage from a security camera obtained by krgv.com shows a middle-aged man leisurely strolling back to his stolen truck with a stolen computer under his arm. It's because of instances like...

A data breach can be a devastating experience. Even more so if the breach involves a particular profession where privacy, anonymity, and secrecy happen to be paramount. That's why a medical data breach hits people more closely than a retailer's...

According to some of the latest findings, the average cost of a lost laptop is over $49,000. In US dollars. Actually, there needs to be an asterisk placed after the figure: the cost is based on the assumption that the lost computer was not protected with...

Anchorage Community Mental Health Services (ACMHS) has settled with HHS/OCR over potential violations of HIPAA. Of course, HIPAA settlements are not interesting in of themselves, per se, but because of the accusations that led to them. In this particular...